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You'll have different sections in shops, "fast charging cable", "fast transfer cable", or "fast charging AND fast transfer cable" (with a price to match)
Or stuff like "supports connecting a TV", etc.
People will understand that there are different cables for different jobs, because they understand that a universal cable will be way more expensive.
> In the old days, you could buy a USB-A to micro USB cable and have it work and charge your phone.
Some USB-A to micro cables charge way faster than others (thicker wire). So this supposedly new USB-C problem is actually not new at all.
Just try it for yourself, put a N95 on you face and don't even press the metal nose thing, and then see if you can fit a surgical mask better than this unfit N95.
This is another meme which needs to die.
Coronavirus is an "easy" one to create a vaccine against. HIV would be the toughest one, regular approaches don't work, which is why we don't have a vaccine despite 30 years of trying.
For HIV you need a different approach, called "germ-line targetting", where instead of presenting the virus, you are trying to direct the evolution of antibody producing cells towards a specific kind which is able to produce working antibodies. If you just present the virus, you get useless antibodies.
So if we are hit by a "hard" virus like HIV, mRNA vaccines will be useless, since it takes years to figure out that germ line targeting.
That's not true. At the beginning of Feb last year I searched if there was any UK pandemic plan. I found the active pandemic flu planning documents. 80% of it was about dealing with dead bodies, with stuff like turning Hyde Park into an open air morgue and insisting that each council has a plan of where to put the bodies.
There was little else in the plan, regarding preventing/hospital management.
The impression that I got reading them was that it was all about managing the consequences, and very little about fighting the pandemic. Defeatism basically.